Actually I was wrong I was in a meeting and replied from my pda when I wrote that response. Didn't think clearly on it. There are two usual implementations of that reboot fix the machine type solutions. One is hardware and the other is BIOS level software. So the software is installed and hooks the bios which then on reboot it points to the software instead of the os. It cleans up and then points back to the os to continue booting. I would guess that deep freeze is architected in this manner. I actually work with a guy that wrote software that does that exact same thing and he was telling me about it.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julian Zottl Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 1:37 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: RE: [H] Anyone heard of Windows Shared Computer Toolkit before? Very interesting ideas! I know there was no hardware assoicated with it. When the tech's wanted to add software that would stay, they just rebooted and entered a password at a prompt right before Windows came up. That leads me to believe that it wasn't OS dependent. Hey, I could be wrong though :) _____________________________________ Julian Zottl CTO, Radiant Network Technology, LLC Getting ahead in the tech sector isn't about kissing butt ... you gotta sniff the right packets ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Mesdaq, Ali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: The Hardware List <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:17:22 -0800 >Deep freeze most likely works the following two ways. >Way 1 is there is a hardware piece on the drive cable. All writes are directed to a particular portion of the drive and on reboot its wipe clean >Way 2 a filter driver is installed and writes all changes to a different area of the drive and on reboot it cleans it out. > >Both pretty much work the same way. Very fast and efficient. Works great for schools > >________________________________ > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Julian Zottl >Sent: Tue 2/28/2006 11:02 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; The Hardware List >Subject: Re: [H] Anyone heard of Windows Shared Computer Toolkit before? > > > >Seems alot like Deep Freeze: http://www.faronics.com/html/deepfreeze.asp >I would love to know how Deep Freeze works. It's an amazing product! > >Cliff Notes: Get a PC like you want it and install Deep Freeze. Leave the computer wide open so that anyone can install anything. Reboot. Computer goes back to the way you had it quickly (as in, adds maybe 5 seconds to the reboot)! > >_____________________________________ >Julian Zottl >CTO, Radiant Network Technology, LLC >Getting ahead in the tech sector isn't about kissing butt ... you gotta sniff the right packets > > > >---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- >From: "Bobby Heid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], The Hardware List <[email protected]> >Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:01:58 -0500 > >>I just came across this article: >>http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/w-p/win32/security/article.php/c11419 >> >>which has a link to: >>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/default.mspx >> >>This seems to be some sort of caching program that caches changes to your >>system. If you want to have the changes saved, you have to tell it to do >>something like "load changes upon next windows restart." It uses 1GB to 10 >>% of actual disk or partition size, whichever is greater. >> >>Any thoughts on this? >> >>Bobby >> >> > > > > >
